Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.